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en-usNAMM '18 - Cole Clark FL2EC BEM & Long Lady Series Basses Demosshawneditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/27014Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:47:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/27014-namm-18---cole-clark-fl2ec-bem-long-lady-series-basses
SNAMM '17 - Cole Clark Guitars Angel 2 Demoeditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/26092Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:42:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/26092-snamm-17---cole-clark-guitars-angel-2-demo
SNAMM 2017 Editors' Picks Livestream Day 3jason@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25982Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:00:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25982-snamm-2017-editors-picks-livestream-day-3
NAMM '17 - Cole Clark Little Lady Demojason@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25392Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:00:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25392-namm-17---cole-clark-little-lady-demo
Cole Clark FL2EC-BLBL-AE Reviewcharles@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/24201Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:30:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/24201-cole-clark-fl2ec-blbl-ae-review
NAMM '16 - Cole Clark Guitars CCFL2EC-RDBL-AE & CCAN1E-BM Demosrich@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/23743Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:35:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/23743-namm-16---cole-clark-guitars-ccfl2ec-rdbl-ae-ccan1e-bm-demos
NAMM 2016: Editors' Picks – Day 2editor@premierguitar.com
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http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/23701Fri, 22 Jan 2016 19:35:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/23701-namm---editors-picks-day--
SNAMM '15 - Cole Clark Guitars CCFL2EC BLBL AE & CCFL2EC MMAH Demoscharles@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22902Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:30:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22902-snamm-15---cole-clark-guitars-ccfl2ec-blbl-ae-ccfl2ec-mmah-demos
GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2015 Day 3editor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22811Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:00:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22811-gallery-summer-namm-2015-day-3
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Henretta Engineering&#39;s Big Zapper is a versatile filter that can go from classic &#39;70s space funk to wacky oscillation relatively easy. The circuit is an expanded version of the company&#39;s Green Zapper, but with the controls on the outside. The Clock Trigger is especially inspiring because it allows you to create automatic filter sweeps at a variety of speeds. It&#39;s available now for $249.SNAMMD3_01MadProfessor_EvolutionOrange.jpg
Mad Professor Amplification made the trip from Finland to share their new wares at NAMM. One of the offerings debuted is the Evolution Orange Underdrive (EOU) that offers a new way to approach tone. The EOU works by lowering the midrange (where the overdrive is primarily), so instead of overdriving clean tone, players can now get cleaner tones from their favorite overdriven tone. Eureka!
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Always wanted a Fano guitar but didn&#39;t have the coin to do so? NAMM attendees got a glimpse at the new U.S.-made Fano Standard guitar models which include the JM6, SP6, and ML6 (shown). Inspired by their pricier custom Alt-de-Facto cousins, these new models remain feature rich and include appointments such as compound radius fretboards, tiered headstocks, exclusive hardware, and Fano Guitars custom-design pickups. All three models street for under $2,000.
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Two Notes Audio Engineering is in the NAMM house with their new 2-channel preamp for bassists. The &quot;Le Bass&quot; runs 200 volts to preserve the interaction between player and instrument while playing nice with anything else on a pedalboard. The two channels are completely independent, with each having their own voicing and EQ. Channel A is for ultra-fast, responsive and clean playing, while Channel B stays true to the foundation of bass guitar tones with solid punch and sweet break up. $299 street.
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Word has it that The Word&#39;s Robert Randolph picked up one of Peavey Electronics&#39; super-affordable PowerSlide steel guitars at a music shop not too long ago and was blown away. One thing led to another, and now the sacred-steel legend has two signature Peaveys debuting at NAMM. His signature PowerSlide (approx. $329 street) features upgraded hardware, including a standard hardtail bridge, an added neck pickup, and an adjustable harness for optimizing playing position. Meanwhile, his solid-state namesake head ($599 street) features 500 watts of RMS stereo power, extensive EQ, gain, and effects-loop capabilities, MIDI functionality, and a push-button control module (bottom right) that clips to your steel-guitar stand to allow on-the-fly activation of onboard effects&mdash;including spring- and plate-style reverb, chorus, and delay.
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Budda Amplification brought this brawny, very versatile volume pedal to #NAMM. Besides sturdiness and onstage stability, it offers selectable active and passive modes, with a toe-click boost function you can tailor to between +1 and +12 dB, as well as a trim pot for setting minimum volume.
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Peavey came to Nashville #AMM &quot;en Force&quot; with a whole line of Star Wars-themed electrics and accessories (picks, straps, etc.).
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Alex Scott Guitars had the new Saturncaster proudly on display in Nashville. The patina&#39;d and candy-colored amalgam of Coral, offset, and reverse-bird shapes came off as surprisingly fresh looking, and the Rio Grande P-90 and S-type neck pickup combo create a unique tone palette. And if you want to go nutty with the color combos, these guys will happily do custom work. Looks to be about $1,495.
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Revv Amplification graced the NAMM floor with the sexy new all-tube Dynamis 1x12 combo. Each of the two channels has variable wattage (7 or 40), three different reverb decay settings, dedicated EQ, and solo-boost functionality. Channel 2 has three different levels of gain and response to select from. A 6-button foot controller comes packaged with the Dynamis which will street at $2,295.
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Chase Bliss Audio made their summer NAMM debut and did so by showing off their new Gravitas trem. This tremolo pedal features an all-analog signal path that can do any variety or shape of standard volume modulation, harmonic tremolo (inspired by vintage Brownface) or both simultaneously for a unique sound that sits just right in a mix. They&#39;re available now with a street price of $299.SNAMMD3_10MTD_Saratoga.jpg
Michael Tobias Design brought a totally revamped version of his Saratoga 4-string to NAMM. Changes to the New York-built bass include a new headstock design, roasted wood options (including swamp ash), active/passive electronics, and pickups from Nordstrand, Aguilar, and other boutique outfits.
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Holy Superdistorter. Caroline Guitar Company introduced some nasty at NAMM with the debut of the Wave Cannon MKII. The pedal can do some very cool mild-to-medium crunch tones, but is also capable of really overwhelming your amp. Caroline put plenty of gain and volume on tap&mdash;inspired by infuriation in the past with great sounding classic distortion pedals that didn&rsquo;t go far enough with clean amps, or were quieter than unity gain or the bypass signal. The rumble switch allows more low end when wanted, or tightens things up if you don&rsquo;t need it. $199 street.
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Takamine Guitars introduced a pair of killer new dreads to NAMM attendees with the EF340S TT and EF360S TT. Handcrafted in Japan, both feature solid spruce soundboards treated with &quot;thermal top&quot; technology that helps provide the sound of a well broken-in classic. The 340S has solid mahogany back and sides while the 360S utilizes rosewood. Equipped with a TLD-2 preamp fed by a Palathetic pickup, both are ready to roll for stage or studio.
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We were a bit bummed that Cusack Music didn&#39;t have any new stomps at NAMM&mdash;well, *other* than this huge, working version of their Reverb SME. Screw the micro trend!
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Venice, California, luthier Bill Asher of Asher Guitars and Lap Steels brought his latest fetching solidbody to NAMM. Like old Teisco guitars, the GT-3 has a mahogany body and neck, and is outfitted with Lollar Gold-Foils, a shortened T-style ashtray bridge, and a gold-anodized aluminum pickguard.
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Bugera Amps came to NAMM with a couple of powerful, classy-looking, affordable Veyron bass heads. Both feature a 2,000-watt, class-D power amp with built-in optical compression, while the MOSFET ($399 street, top) has a&mdash;you guessed it&mdash;MOSFET preamp, and the Tube version ($499) has three 12AX7s.
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Nashville amp builder Scott VanFossen came to NAMM with his new Bullhead Amplification, IncScorpio head in silver covering. Built to celebrate his 10th year in business, the 20-watt, class AB head features 3-band EQ, presence, depth, and master volume, and a series effect loop for $2,600 street.
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Cole Clark Guitars&#39; latest at NAMM is the CCAN2EC-MMAH grand auditorium, which boasts solid African mahogany top, back, and sides, and the Aussie company&#39;s stellar 3-way pickup system.
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Joyo Technology Co., Ltd came to NAMM with the new JP-04 power box. Five of its eight completely isolated jacks juice up to 100 mA at 9V, two go up to 250 mA, and one goes to 250 mA and is switchable between 9 and 12V.
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Though formed as an official company a whopping two days before Summer NAMM started, the effect junkies at RT Electronix - Boutique Effects have been fine-tuning a wide range of tweak-o-riffic pedals for the last couple of years. One of the coolest is the Ultimate Analog Delay, a dual-channel, bucket-brigade stereo wonder with tap tempo, Tempo Sync Modulation, and a super robotronic arpeggiator function.
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Check out the curves on this beauty! V16 Guitars luthier Corey Wadley brought the eye-popping ES-O Berkeley all the way from his Denver, Colorado, shop to Nashville NAMM. It flaunts 7-ply curly maple-and-beech top and back, scatter-wound pickups, and a Bigsby B-12 vibrato.
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Built with input from ZZ Top&#39;s Billy Gibbons, the latest prototype that luthier Charles Whitfill of Whitfill Custom Guitars brought to NAMM features the Rev&#39;s trademark pinstriping, pickups from Onamac Windery, and a custom Babicz bridge.
Cole Clark Releases the Little Ladyeditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22765Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:45:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22765-cole-clark-releases-the-little-lady
Cole Clark Releases New Mahogany Modelseditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22767Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:04:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22767-cole-clark-releases-new-mahogany-models
Musikmesse '15 - Cole Clark Guitars Little Lady & Australian Eco Seriesshawneditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22516Wed, 06 May 2015 11:20:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22516-musikmesse-15---cole-clark-guitars-little-lady-australian-eco-series
NAMM '15 - Cole Clark Guitars Angel 3 Demoshawneditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22051Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:00:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/22051-namm-15---cole-clark-guitars-angel-3-demo
NAMM '14 - Cole Clark Triumph 2, Talisman, and FL3 Series Demosshawneditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20465Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:15:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20465-namm-14---cole-clark-triumph-2-talisman-and-fl3-series-demos
GALLERY: 2014 NAMM Day 2editor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20263Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:32:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20263-gallery-2014-namm-day-2
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D&#39;Addario unveiled their new NS Artist capo at the 2014 NAMM show. It utilizes a patented trigger design that requires only 1/3 of the force to operate, has a micrometer tension adjustment dial, and includes a tuner-mounting bracket.
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Eastman Guitars E1000SS, is a beautiful little take on the 00 shape. This version is Adirondack Spruce and mahogany and the MAP is around $1,100. A rosewood version streets at $1,200.
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ESP Guitars Custom Shop brought this intricately detailed Armor Custom axe to NAMM.
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Frank Falbo brought his first electric guitar to the show. It&#39;s a hollowbody, handcarved, one-off that&#39;s packed with Fishman Fluence Classic Humbuckers. Priced at $6,250, Falbo will be releasing a production-esque model later in the year that will be less expensive.
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The great Jerry Donahue did us the favor of bending away beautifully on his new signature Fret-King--alder body with a thin ash cap, a five bolt neck, five way switch, and custom Seymour Duncan pickups, all for $1,199.
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Gallien-Krueger unveiled a trio of new enclosures with the CX Series: a 2x10, a 1x15, and a 4x10. All are equipped with proprietary ceramic drivers and offer a compact design and light load.
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Gallien-Krueger showed their new MB108 combo which should be available in May 2014. It&#39;s a 25-watt practice/bedroom amp that sports a single 8&quot; speaker and 3-band EQ. Anticipated street: $149.
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Ibanez Guitars and Korg joined forces for the RG6--a super expressive fusion of six string and Kaos pad. It&#39;s at prototype stage now, but a green light for production sounds like a near certainty. Be sure to watch for our demo--fun stuff!
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Mod Kits DIY brought their new Wahtz Wah to NAMM. The point-to-point kit will cost around 100 bucks and sounds fat as heck!
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Schecter Guitars new Hellraiser Hybrid C7 features a mahogany body, quilted maple top, ebony fretboard, graphite binding, Hipshot bridge, and EMG Pickups 57 and 66 pickups. $999 street.
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Taylor Guitars brought a completely reimagined 800 series to NAMM. Master builder Andy Powers was given free-rein to update the venerated models with thinner finishes, hyde glues, new bracing patterns and profiles, and Expression System 2 electronics. The 814ce has the usual Sitka spruce top and East Indian back and sides&mdash;and pickguard. Prices start around $3,000.
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Zon showed off their new Mosaic Mojo basses at the 2014 NAMM show. The Mojo models are outfitted with Aguilar pups, come in three electronics configurations, and start at only $899.
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Australia&#39;s Cole Clark Guitars always brings extremely unique instruments to NAMM. In addition to reviving the Taliaman model, they brought the brand new Triumph 2 (pictured here) is built from Queensland Maple (back and sides) and a Bunya top. The Australian Blackwood inlay is crazy cool too. $2,999 MAP and available now.
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The new Gibson Skunk Baxter Firebird has ultra-hot alnico 5 pickups with individual on/off switches and coil taps, 9-ply walnut-and-mahogany body and neck, Steinberger gearless tuners, and a Lyre tailpiece.
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Doesn&#39;t get much cuter than Ibanez&#39;s new 5-watt Tube Screamer amp. This little guy comes complete with reverb and overdrive controls, and those little legs and vintage radio/TV-like design make it a pretty groovy piece of furniture too!
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Kramer&#39;s new 25 1/2&quot;-scale Assault Plus has a slim mahogany body and 24-fret set neck, Seymour Duncan pickups (an Alternative 8 bridge and &#39;59 Classic neck), and two push-pull volumes for splitting the pickups in series or parallel.
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PRS Guitars brought a ton of cool stuff to Anaheim, including (left to right) a new Zach Myers SE signature ($799), Private Stock Alex Lifeson Thinline acoustic, Private Stock Brent Mason, Marty FriedmanSE ($649), and the new 100-watt, high-gain Archon amp&mdash;which features a 6L6 power section, a half-power switch, and two channels with five gain stages for $1,799.
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Rick&#39; fans rejoice!!!! Rickenbacker unleashed their new Walnut series here in Anaheim. A thin oil finish gives the bodies a luxurious, natural aura, and the all-maple neck creates a striking contrast. The series includes the 360-12W, 4003W, and 330W. Wow....
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Jim Dunlop Guitar Products brought several smokin&#39; pedals to NAMM. MXR&#39;s Phase 99 pairs two Phase 90 circuits that can be sync&#39;d or run in series or parallel, and in &quot;script&quot; or &quot;block&quot; modes. The MXR Micro Amp+ offers 26 dB of gain and super-interactive bass and treble knobs. The redesigned Way Huge Swollen Pickle features a smaller chassis and custom graphics, and puts controls that were previously internal on the top of the unit. MXR&#39;s La Machina is a Foxx Tone Machine-style fuzz, and the Uni-Vibe is back in a smaller enclosure with dual modes. The Echoplex pedal features a preamp styled after the front end of a vintage EP-1, and the new Cry Baby CM-95 Clyde McCoy features a halo inductor for warm, rounded vintage tones.
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Reverend came to Anaheim with a slew of debuts, including this new Pete Anderson signature model, the PA-1 HB Custom. This classic looking axe boasts features like a trapeze tailpiece, flame maple back and sides, a bound headstock, and a set of Reverend&#39;s Classic H pickups.
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Rotosound delivered the goods at the show by introducing six new killer pedals: the Wobbler Tremolo, the King Henry Phaser, the Crusader Chorus, the Leveller EQ, the Aftermath Delay, and the Pusher Compressor.
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Tech 21 is celebrating their 25th Anniversary this year, and to celebrate, they unveiled the Fly Rig 5. It&#39;s an ultra-compact unit that allows a player to access the sounds of five pedals in Tech 21&#39;s celebrated line-up: a SansAmp, reverb, delay, boost, and Plexi distortion.
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Traynor Amps introduced the YBA-1Mod1 amp at NAMM 2014 in response the popularity of the LE 50th Anniversary YBA-1 they unveiled last year. The YBA-1Mod1 is an all-tube, 2-channel beast that&#39;s capable of running at 40, 20, 5, 1, or 0.1 watts.
Fire Breaks Out at Cole Clark Factory Causing Millions in Damageseditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/blogs/5/post/19593Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:38:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/blogs/5-daily-news/post/19593-fire-breaks-out-at-cole-clark-factory-causing-millions-in-damages
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Summer NAMM '11 - Cole Clark Guitars Brent Mason & Randy Kohrs Performance Pt. 2http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/16370Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Summer_NAMM_11_Cole_Clark_Guitars_Brent_Mason_Randy_Kohrs_Performance_Pt_2
Summer NAMM '11 - Cole Clark Guitars Brent Mason & Randy Kohrs Performance Pt. 1http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/16327Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Summer_NAMM_11_Cole_Clark_Guitars_Brent_Mason_Randy_Kohrs_Performance_Pt_1
NAMM '11-Cole Clark Special Edition Talisman Demohttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/16145Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/NAMM_11_Cole_Clark_Special_Edition_Talisman_Demo
NAMM '11 - Cole Clark Hollow Baby Electric Demohttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/16120Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/NAMM_11_Cole_Clark_Hollow_Baby_Electric_Demo
Cole Clark Fat Lady 1AC Acoustic Guitar Revieweditor@premierguitar.comhttp://www.premierguitar.com/articles/13918Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:00 -0400https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/Cole_Clark_Fat_Lady_1AC_Acoustic_Guitar_Review